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The VICTORIA PORTAL Topics Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Nature People Philosophy Religion Society Technology Crowded House performing at Hyde Park, London, in June 2007 Crowded House is a rock and pop group formed in Melbourne, Australia, and led by New Zealand musician and singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Finn is widely recognised as the primary songwriter and creative direction of the band, having led it through several incarnations, drawing members from New Zealand (Neil Finn, Tim Finn and Eddie Rayner), Australia (Paul Hester, Nick Seymour, Peter Jones and Craig Hooper) and United States (Mark Hart and Matt Sherrod). Though the band owes its original success to the Australian live music scene, references to New Zealand people and places in songs pay homage to their roots ("Kare Kare" is written about Karekare Beach, "Mean to Me" refers to Finn's hometown of Te Awamutu). The success of the group's third album Woodface and the general success of Crowded House and Split Enz prompted Queen Elizabeth II of the Commonwealth in June 1993 to bestow the Order of the British Empire on both Tim and Neil Finn for their contribution to the music of New Zealand. Originally active between 1985 and 1996, the band's notable hits from this period include "Don't Dream It's Over", "Something So Strong", "Better Be Home Soon", "Fall at Your Feet" and "Weather with You". In 2007, the group reunited with a new drummer. In this period, the group has released one album, Time on Earth, which reached #1 on Australia's ARIA Albums Chart. Wilsons Promontory cliffs Wilsons Promontory is a peninsula that forms the southernmost part of the Australian mainland. South Point is the southernmost tip of Wilsons Promontory and hence of mainland Australia. The Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse is located at South East Point. Kylie Minogue, OBE, is an Australian Grammy and Brit award-winning pop singer, songwriter and actress. Minogue rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before she commenced her career as a pop artist in the late '80s. Signed to a contract by British songwriters and producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman in 1988, she achieved a string of hit records throughout the world. ...that the locality of Boinka, Victoria, (pictured) which has area population of 28 people, celebrates Melbourne Cup Day each year despite being located 496 kilometres from Melbourne? ...that although Paul MacGillivray's main interest was natural history, he was also the president of the Medical Society of Victoria and a member of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria? ... that the Rural City of Marong, a local government in Victoria, voted itself out of existence in 1994 after the Kennett Liberal government introduced legislation designed to void a Supreme Court injunction preventing its amalgamation? ...that the Ballarat Botanical Gardens in Victoria features a collection of busts of all 25 predecessors of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd? edit Template:/box-header Queensland Northern Territory Western Australia South Australia New South Wales Victoria Tasmania Australian Capital Territory Visit Australia Portal What are portals? List of portals Featured portals